I just ran into the same problem / issue with Management Reporter 2012 CU 13 as MonacoGP.

The Server component of Management Reporter 2012 CU 13 (MR2012-CU13) installed like a charm. I installed the application and processing service with very little effort. I now wanted to implement my integration for the AX 2012 platform but I got some errors.

I deepdived into some troubleshooting and somewere along the way the MR2012-CU13 installation broke. I'm seeing the excact same thing as MonacoGP:

Full uninstall of MR2012-CU13

Reboot server

Install the Server component of MR2012-CU13

Start the Configuration Console and receive the famuse error

Look into the Application Event Viewer log and find the following error message:

....System.Xml.XmlException: Unexpected end of file. at System.Xml.EncodingStreamWrapper.ReadBOMEncoding(Boolean notOutOfBand) at System.Xml.EncodingStreamWrapper..ctor(Stream stream, Encoding encoding)....

Did a full uninstall of MR2012-CU13

Reboot server

Install the Server component of MR2012-CU12 this time

Start the Configuration Console without any errors

This got me curious and I did some reverseengineering and threw all my effort into to finding the problem. Fast forward 5 hours and I found that the following scenario is what MonacoGP and I'm facing:

When starting the Configuration Console of MR2012-CU13 it loads the basic configuration into memory. When you exits the program, the configuration is written to disk at this location:

The next time you start the Configuration Console of MR2012-CU13 it reads the file and starts the program.

If the file is EMPTY - then MR2012-CU13 will fail with the above error message.

Delete the file and MR2012-CU13 will load the configuration into memory once again and save it when you exit the program.

Try to clear the file on a MR2012-CU13 installation and see for you self that it breaks down. Delete the file and start the Configuration Console again and exit it right away. Now the file is written to disk containing the need configuration for your installation.

I just ran into the same problem / issue with Management Reporter 2012 CU 13 as MonacoGP.

The Server component of Management Reporter 2012 CU 13 (MR2012-CU13) installed like a charm. I installed the application and processing service with very little effort. I now wanted to implement my integration for the AX 2012 platform but I got some errors.

I deepdived into some troubleshooting and somewere along the way the MR2012-CU13 installation broke. I'm seeing the excact same thing as MonacoGP:

Full uninstall of MR2012-CU13

Reboot server

Install the Server component of MR2012-CU13

Start the Configuration Console and receive the famuse error

Look into the Application Event Viewer log and find the following error message:

....System.Xml.XmlException: Unexpected end of file. at System.Xml.EncodingStreamWrapper.ReadBOMEncoding(Boolean notOutOfBand) at System.Xml.EncodingStreamWrapper..ctor(Stream stream, Encoding encoding)....

Did a full uninstall of MR2012-CU13

Reboot server

Install the Server component of MR2012-CU12 this time

Start the Configuration Console without any errors

This got me curious and I did some reverseengineering and threw all my effort into to finding the problem. Fast forward 5 hours and I found that the following scenario is what MonacoGP and I'm facing:

When starting the Configuration Console of MR2012-CU13 it loads the basic configuration into memory. When you exits the program, the configuration is written to disk at this location:

The next time you start the Configuration Console of MR2012-CU13 it reads the file and starts the program.

If the file is EMPTY - then MR2012-CU13 will fail with the above error message.

Delete the file and MR2012-CU13 will load the configuration into memory once again and save it when you exit the program.

Try to clear the file on a MR2012-CU13 installation and see for you self that it breaks down. Delete the file and start the Configuration Console again and exit it right away. Now the file is written to disk containing the need configuration for your installation.